Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Pain

• Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Weather

• I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheist, Pain, Struggle

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.294, Vintage

• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

• The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Discipline, Humanity

• Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Pleasure, Said

• Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Blood, Criticism

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Discipline, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.156, Courier Corporation

• One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Taken, Pride

• One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Thinking, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Ethics, Morality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.62, Courier Corporation

• The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Cynical, Causes

• There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Failure, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.360, Friedrich Nietzsche

• Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, People, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.462, Courier Corporation

• But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, What If

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

• Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Pride, Feelings

  "Political writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: an edited anthology".

• But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Enemy, Suffering

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.121, Booklassic

• One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

• You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Suffering

• There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.170, Courier Corporation

• I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dog, Pain, Names

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.249, Vintage

• O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Pain, Fall

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